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Tracks by Louise Erdrich

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jodubriel33's review against another edition

4.0

This good is a very good read. Louise weaves a story between two characters, Nanapush and Pauline. Yet, the females are the driving force in this book. If you haven't read any of Lousie Erdrich books this is a good book to start.

lyg004's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.0

parts of this were so easy to get lost in, particularly the aspects of magical realism and certain character perspectives (i loved nanapush’s sections). minus a few stars for me getting a bit confused quite a lot of times; although it’s short, this book requires a lot of attention and effort if you want to really understand it/ make it to the end.

blazenaat's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

katzmetz's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

han_reads_13579's review against another edition

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reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes

4.0

dillarhonda's review against another edition

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Way up in North Dakota, the surviving members of the indigenous peoples are fighting to survive the winter, to find love, and to cling to the old ways. Louise Erdrich’s Tracks, set in the early twentieth-century, delicately explores the life and death struggles of one extended family as they come together and fall apart. The border between the world of the living and that of the dead is perilously thin and real magic stalks the edges of the land. A young woman seems to bring down terrible storms on the heads of those who have wronged her, an old man telepathically guides his young nephew to a moose, a monster lives at the heart of the lake. Erdrich’s occasionally dreamlike prose flittingly depicts joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, what it means to teeter on the edge of starvation and then what it is to feast.